While I agree with your premise, the "toil" that you mention is a very small use case for a tiny minority of people. And automating it away has always been trivial. What would have taken 30 minutes to write a Python script now takes 5 minutes to come up with the perfect prompt. And then you have to test and be sure that it does what you want. Neat, but not world-changing.

Meanwhile ChatGPT is already being hailed as the Google killer. People are using it to write essays and form opinions. Plenty of online and offline debates contains phrases from ChatGPT repeated verbatim. It's being adopted in newsrooms around the world. So what it is good for in theory and what people are actually using it for are worlds apart. IMO the technology is going to have its "self driving car kills pedestrian" moment very soon because of over-eager and careless users, and that is going to set the entire field back.

Like said somewhere on the internet, we don't need AI to create art, we need AI to do the dishes and free our time to create art.

When I want a quick insight to launch me into further inquiry, chatgpt has been so much more useful than regular search with the first 10 hits of AI generated advertisement spam. I use one that provide its source as well, so I can check.

Reddit tends to be a second best bet, and the most upvoted is not always the best, on a busy thread some ‘real’ experts are usually a bit down with lengthy descriptions of their analysis.

Search is third, it’s quick but I do often need to append stackoverflow and reddit to get meaningful answers. I forgo Google completely more and more since the quality is so low, perhaps 2% of my queries go there tops.

Absolutely. I know what i want, i know how to do it, but i don't want to type it out.

Just imagine how many little code snippets you used (at least I did) to make my life easier and faster

A script which parses jaon for a specific key or transforming a table from y to z.

Now everyone has this available to them.

It's great already!